From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... reality.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
2.
... reality and
the beauty of the forest ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
We missed the reality and
the beauty of the forest
because we were diverted by the ugliness
of some of its trees.
3.
... reality at
all.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
It is being constantly
revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all.
4.
... Reality deep
down within us.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
5.
... reality intensely
practical.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
6.
... reality, of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The wonderful energy it
releases and the eager action by which it carries
our message to the next suffering alcoholic and
which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent
reality, of Alcoholics
Anonymous.
7.
... reality, or
were outright mental defectives.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control
our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that
we were in full flight from
reality, or were outright
mental defectives.
8.
... reality out
of bottles.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a
little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried
to create reality out of bottles.
9.
... reality that
was the beginning of my ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
10.
... reality, the
nourishment of His strength, and ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere of His grace.
11.
... Reality --
their loving and All Powerful Creator.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
12.
... reality we
have already passed up many ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.
13.
... reality which
is God's kingdom.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
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